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Crystallography of deformation twinning in hexagonal close-packed metals. Revisiting the case of the (56 deg, a) contraction twins in magnesium
Materials Science · Submitted 1 Nov 2016
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The authors' main claim Then, the distortion takes the form a simple shear on the twin plane with a shear direction along the direction [18,-5,-5] and a shear amplitude of 0.358.
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Contraction twinning in magnesium alloys leads to new grains that are misoriented from the parent grain by a rotation of 56 deg around the a-axis. The classical theory of deformation twinning does not precise the atomic displacements and does not explain why contractions twinning is less frequent than extension twinning. The paper proposes a new model in the continuity of our previous works on martensitic transformations and extension twinning. A continuous angular distortion matrix that transforms the initial hcp crystal into a final hcp crystal is determined such that the atoms move as hard spheres and reach the final positions expected by the orientation relationship. The calculations prove that the distortion is not a simple shear when it is considered in its continuity. The (01-11) twin plane is untilted and restored, but it is not fully invariant because some interatomic distances in this plane evolve during the distortion process; the unit volume also increases up to 5% before coming back to its initial value when the twinning distortion is complete. Then, the distortion takes the form a simple shear on the twin plane with a shear direction along the direction [18,-5,-5] and a shear amplitude of 0.358. It is the first time that this twinning mode is reported. Experiments are proposed to validate or infirm the new model.
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| s0 | Contraction twinning in magnesium alloys leads to new grains that are misoriented from the parent grain by a rotation of 56 deg around the a-axis. | background 1.00 | 0.15 | 0.07 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | The classical theory of deformation twinning does not precise the atomic displacements and does not explain why contractions twinning is less frequent than extension twinning. | gap 0.98 | 0.06 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | The paper proposes a new model in the continuity of our previous works on martensitic transformations and extension twinning. | contribution 0.92 | 0.65 | 0.04 | asserted 0.98 |
| s3 | A continuous angular distortion matrix that transforms the initial hcp crystal into a final hcp crystal is determined such that the atoms move as hard spheres and reach the final positions expected by the orientation relationship. | method 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.13 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | The calculations prove that the distortion is not a simple shear when it is considered in its continuity. | result 0.99 | 0.90 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | The (01-11) twin plane is untilted and restored, but it is not fully invariant because some interatomic distances in this plane evolve during the distortion process; the unit volume also increases up to 5% before coming back to its initial value when the twinning distortion is complete. | result 1.00 | 0.88 | 0.21 | asserted 1.00 |
| s6 | Then, the distortion takes the form a simple shear on the twin plane with a shear direction along the direction [18,-5,-5] and a shear amplitude of 0.358. | result 0.97 | 0.90 | 0.29 | asserted 1.00 |
| s7 | It is the first time that this twinning mode is reported. | contribution 0.76 | 0.75 | 0.08 | asserted 1.00 |
| s8 | Experiments are proposed to validate or infirm the new model. | future work 1.00 | 0.32 | 0.03 | unclear 0.41 |
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Contraction twinning in magnesium alloys leads to new grains that are misoriented from the parent grain by a rotation of 56 deg around the a-axis. The classical theory of deformation twinning does not precise the atomic displacements and does not explain why contractions twinning is less frequent than extension twinning. The paper proposes a new model in the continuity of our previous works on martensitic transformations and extension twinning. A continuous angular distortion matrix that transforms the initial hcp crystal into a final hcp crystal is determined such that the atoms move as hard spheres and reach the final positions expected by the orientation relationship. The calculations prove that the distortion is not a simple shear when it is considered in its continuity. The (01-11) twin plane is untilted and restored, but it is not fully invariant because some interatomic distances in this plane evolve during the distortion process; the unit volume also increases up to 5% before coming back to its initial value when the twinning distortion is complete. Then, the distortion takes the form a simple shear on the twin plane with a shear direction along the direction [18,-5,-5] and a shear amplitude of 0.358. It is the first time that this twinning mode is reported. Experiments are proposed to validate or infirm the new model.
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